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Dr. Mark McKenna is a licensed medical doctor, a committed patient advocate, and a respected community leader. He obtained his license to practice medicine and surgery from the Florida and Georgia State Board of Medical Examiners. The New Orleans native completed his medical course at the Tulane University Medical School. He started practicing medicine at his father’s clinic and eventually launched McKenna Venture Investments, a premier real estate development business.

McKenna acquired Uptown Title, Inc., and Universal Mortgage Lending. This portfolio firms grew to more than 50 workers, and they provided finance, real estate closing, and turnkey design-build services. On August 29, 2005, McKenna registered massive losses following the Hurricane Katrina that damaged the city of New Orleans and a bigger percentage of McKenna’s business interests. After this disastrous storm, he joined other investors in the rebuilding of New Orleans by financing the construction of low-moderate income properties.

McKenna moved to Atlanta, GA, in November 2007. He started a medical practice, ShapeMed, which focused on wellness and aesthetics. Life Time Fitness acquired ShapeMed on November 1, 2014, and appointed McKenna as its national medical director. He relinquished this position in July 2016. McKenna founded OVME, an innovative facing, technology supported, aesthetic firm that is redefining elective healthcare.

Origin of the idea to form OVME

Dr. McKenna leveraged his more than a decade’s professional experience in the competitive medical aesthetics sector to come up with OVME. He gained a lot of knowledge from building one of the biggest practices in America and selling it to a publicly traded firm. He discovered that the medical aesthetics industry had many untapped opportunities.

Bringing ideas to life

Dr. McKenna has a unique strategy for bringing his ideas to life. He sets goals and visions on a regular basis. He also enjoys meditating once per day. He believes meditation coupled with active goal setting is a perfect recipe for success. Dr. McKenna loves to surround himself with smarter people. That way, he regularly learns new ideas and solutions to problems that he faces. He recommends every ambitious entrepreneur to read Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich.

Licensed medical doctor and surgeon, Dr. Mark McKenna is the founder and CEO of OVME. The company uses technology and medical aesthetic to offer elective health solutions. After years of working in the aesthetic medical field, Dr. McKenna noted that there were other opportunities in the industry and that’s when he came up with the idea of OVME.

Medical Career

McKenna received medical training from Tulane University Medical School. After completing, he joined his father in practice and today he is a licensed medical doctor in both surgery and medicine. After years of operating in New Orleans, which is also his hometown, he moved to Atlanta in 2007 where he launched ShapeMed, a medical practice focusing on aesthetic and wellness. In 2014, Life Time Fitness Inc. bought ShapeMed and Dr. McKenna became the company’s national medical director. In 2017 July, he founded the OVME where he assumed the position of the CEO.

Career as an Investor

When he started his medical practice, he simultaneously embarked in real estate and founded the McKenna Venture Investment, a firm that deals with real estate development. As the years passed by, his company grew to have over fifty employees, offering building designs and finance in the industry. However, when the 2005 Katrina Hurricane hit New Orleans, most of Dr. Mark McKenna’s interests were destroyed. Instead of losing hope, McKenna contributed in rebuilding his city through the development of low to moderate-income housing.

Dr. McKenna’s Personal Life

McKenna and his wife Gianine McKenna are blessed with one beautiful daughter. Dr. McKenna is very close to his family. He prepares the family breakfast and dines with his daughter even before the wife wakes up. He heads for work at 8 a.m. and leaves work at 6 p.m. when he heads home to have dinner with his family.

As successful as he is, Dr. McKenna strongly believes in meditation, as it is during this time that he sets his goals and visualizes them. Other than that, Dr. Mark reads a lot; a habit he believes helps him succeed as an entrepreneur.